Word: kuchel
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...purple style. So do a lot of voters. An author of alarmist books on the U.S. educational system, he is also his state's alltime champion vote getter. At the Palladium last week he declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat held by fellow Republican Thomas Kuchel, and as the darling of California's hard-lining conservatives, Rafferty just might give Tom Kuchel a tough fight for the nomination. Kuchel, the Senate minority whip, has been an unabashed liberal Republican in the Senate since he was appointed to his seat in 1952 by then Governor Earl Warren...
Superconservative. In the past, Kuchel gained few friends among conservative Republicans by refusing to support the campaigns of Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and George Murphy. Reagan is publicly remaining "neutral," though privately urging Republican contributors to withhold funds from Rafferty in order to maintain party unity. Yet Rafferty's supporters claim that they have already raised $250,000 from small donations and seem confident that they will be able to get $500,000 more in order to meet the anticipated costs of the campaign. Says Industrialist Henry Salvatori, a leading G.O.P. fund contributor and staunch Reagan supporter: "There...
Despite the indictments, Yorty, 58, staunchly defended his commissioners; claimed the Times is "out to get me." Why? According to the maverick Democratic mayor, the newspaper launched a vendetta because Yorty is an unannounced Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate this year, opposing Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel. And Kuchel, avers Yorty, is "the Times's boy." Ignoring his charge, the Times has contented itself by noting editorially that "city hall will be as clean as Mayor Yorty wants...
Remember Con Thien. Despite the customary verbal niceties, the debate was bitter and sarcastic, and widened even further the gulf between supporters and critics of the Administration's Viet Nam policies. Unfortunately, it also overshadowed an effective speech by Kuchel about his recent visit to Viet Nam. The Californian, who considers himself an "armed dove," left as a supporter of Johnson's policies, and returned even more firmly convinced that they are correct. "Other than Red China, North Korea and North Viet Nam," he said, "every country over there hopes to God we don't turn around...
...Kuchel's speech probably changed no minds; few speeches on Viet Nam ever do. But it did prompt Morton and Cooper to "clarify" their own demands for a bombing halt by explaining that they would not approve of such a step if it left U.S. servicemen in jeopardy...